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Originally Posted by Livia
I don't think you can equate the poor in India with our own poor. Having been to India a couple of times and seen the squalor for myself, and also seen the opulent, sumputous comfort of some of the more well-off, not the actual wealthy, I think trying to equate our own situation with theirs is not an argument that has legs.
I'm not saying we shouldn't help in a crisis, I know that a lot of people, myself included, donate in a crisis - famine, drought, earthquake etc. - but the ongoing desperate poverty of its own people is something India must try to tackle itself now that its financial position has changed.
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You do realise that we don't just send them money? We do actually work with them to manage their resources.
It's completely hypocritical to accuse Indian society of not doing enough, whilst our rich just stand by and lobby the government for more favorable treatment.
We don't have people lobbying on behalf of our poor, only our rich.
I know poverty levels are vastly different between the 2 countries, but you do realise that the space program will continue to create jobs in that country through science, engineering, manufacturing etc? It will also aid to the growth of their economy ensuring that they develop even further into a financial superpower.
I don't think any differently about people living in poverty (that I don't know), be they 10 miles away, or 10,000 miles away.
07-02-2012, 07:58 PM
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